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Search is a conversation: a dialogue between user and system that can be every bit as rich as human conversation. Like human dialogue, it is bidirectional: on one side is the user with their information need, which they articulate as some form of qu ...

Article - Tony Russell-Rose - April 24, 2013 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Creating a rewarding search experience for users can be integral to successful site design, but few books address the process. Here, co-author Tony Russell-Rose describes the conception and creation of Designing the Search Experience: The in ...

Article - UX Magazine Staff - January 16, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

It's a long way to Kyrgyzstan, especially if you're going via New Zealand. But in the global financial system, anywhere to anywhere is just a click away.   Earlier this year, an investigation by international NGO Glo ...

Resource - Ian Attwood - October 30, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Have you ever tried the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google ? It’s meant to take you directly to the result you want, rather than return a list of results. It’s a simple idea, and when it works it seems like magic. But most of the time we ar ...

Article - Tony Russell-Rose - May 16, 2012 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

The design team at Yahoo! Mail just launched a beta version of their redesign for 273 million worldwide users—more users than Gmail and Hotmail combined. Start-to-launch, they completed the redesign the Yahoo! Mail web app and native ...

Article - Beth Koloski - November 12, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The San Francisco Chronicle published an interesting article on Monday about how " Yahoo Labs has bolstered its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists , economists and ethnographers from top universities ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - January 13, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Due in part to Luke Wroblewski's work, the great divide between the business side and the design side of organizations is shrinking. What started out as an internal training course for a group of Yahoo! designers has since touched hundred ...

Article - Luke Wroblewski, UX Magazine Staff - December 08, 2009 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Yahoo! is opening up its search engine with BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). This means that anyone can now tap into its search technology with nearly no restriction. Hakia and Me.dium are two of the early adopters. Article ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - July 13, 2008 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Has anyone else seen Yahoo’s rumored new logo? While I do like the re-thinking of the logo overall but I’m not sure messing with one of the web’s oldest and most recognizable brands is a great idea at this point. Maybe it’s j ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 13, 2008 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Sun’s JRE6 install now comes with the Yahoo! Toolbar. We can’t get clear confirmation as to whether this is an entirely new deal but it’s a mistake either way. Surely, this is a misguided attempt at making money from a free downloa ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - June 06, 2008 - 13 comments - 0 attachments